gang – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of gang

Noun: gang
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.gang
Pl.ganger

Definite

Sg.gangen
Pl.gangene

Sample Sentences

  • Sett fra deg skoene i gangen. (Leave your shoes in the hallway.)
  • I enden av den lange gangen er klasserommet. (The classroom is at the end of the long corridor.)
  • Gangen hans er litt merkelig. (His gait is a bit weird)
  • Vi vant fem ganger på rad! (We won five times in a row!)
  • Historiens gang var litt komplisert. (The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.)

Nouns inflected like gang

tjuendedag, billettautomat, bestevenn, synops, syklon, syklus, abiturient, forsnevring, kroppsdel, snøbre, lekeplass, sesjon, sesong, septim, sefard, seilas, sektor, sement, sensor, sensur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, also related to gå. See: Old Norse Nouns 'gangr'.

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